Chapter Summaries

Li Dao, Xia Youyu, and Liu Yun visited Martial King Manor to invite Shi Yi, but elder Shi Yuan’s disrespectful reception nearly caused a conflict before Shi Li restored cordiality. Shi Yi arrived and drew Li Dao’s interest with his legendary Double Pupils.

• A manor servant escorted Li Dao, Xia Youyu, and Liu Yun into Martial King Manor, where its disciples watched them with curiosity.
• Shi Yuan greeted the Heaven Mending Pavilion delegation with barely concealed arrogance, and Xia Youyu answered with barbed courtesy.
• Liu Yun released her Inscription Pattern realm aura and challenged Shi Yuan for showing disdain toward the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Shi Li arrived, apologized for the poor hospitality, sent Shi Yuan away, and invited the delegation to wait for Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi entered the hall, greeted Grandpa Li, and drew Li Dao’s attention to his Double Pupils.

Shi Yi's Double Pupils failed to see through Li Dao, and their tense meeting at the Martial King Manor led to a proposed confrontation. Shi Li urged Shi Yi to break Li Dao's confidence, while Xia Youyu challenged the manor's treatment of the Heaven Mending Pavilion.

• Shi Yi probed Li Dao with his Double Pupils, but Li Dao's Dao Seed and aura blocked the attempt.
• Shi Li grew wary of Li Dao and privately urged Shi Yi to destroy his Dao heart while avoiding a direct clash with the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Xia Youyu warned Li Dao to conceal his identity, and Li Dao said he would rely on Elder Liu Yun and the Heaven Mending Pavilion if needed.
• At the training grounds, Shi Tao and other Martial King Manor disciples insulted Li Dao and demanded that he face them before challenging Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi proposed discussing the Dao with Li Dao and said he was curious about the Heaven Mending Technique, prompting Xia Youyu to condemn the manor.

Li Dao confronted the Martial King Manor disciples after Shi Tao insulted him and Xia Youyu, then overwhelmed them in the training ground. He left every disciple pinned to the ground by the divine might of a stone stele.

• Shi Tao taunted Li Dao and Xia Youyu, but Li Dao stepped into the training ground and challenged the Martial King Manor disciples to attack together.
• Shi Tao charged Li Dao with a Golden Trident, but Li Dao stopped it with one hand and shattered Shi Tao's arm.
• Li Dao seized the trident, kicked Shi Tao into the ground, and knocked him unconscious.
• When the remaining disciples hesitated, Li Dao released the pressure of a stone stele and forced them all to their knees and onto the ground.

Li Dao and Shi Yi fought in the Training Grounds, where Shi Yi broke the Law-Suppressing Stele’s hold on the Martial King Manor disciples and unleashed his Double Pupils against Li Dao. Li Dao endured Shi Yi’s attacks without injury and prepared to meet a deadly beam as their battle continued.

• Li Dao challenged Shi Yi to enter the arena while the Law-Suppressing Stele immobilized the Martial King Manor disciples.
• Shi Yi stepped forward and used the Qilin Step to shatter the stele’s suppression over the disciples.
• Shi Yi’s hoof strikes battered Li Dao’s Black-and-Yellow Furnace and cracked the Black-Gold Dao Platform, but Li Dao remained unharmed.
• Shi Yi summoned an enormous pupil and fired an ink-black beam at Li Dao with the command “Strangulation.”
• Li Dao broke free of the space around him and released his primal might as the beam approached.

Li Dao and Shi Yi fought fiercely in the Martial King Manor, trading powerful beasts, dao arts, and divine abilities until their battle devastated the training ground. Three elders arrived to stop them, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Li Dao used the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon Treasure Art to shield himself from Shi Yi's destructive attack, then sent the dragons charging at him.
• Shi Yi bound the Yin-Yang Flood Dragons with runes, but Li Dao summoned the Law-Suppressing Stele and freed them.
• Shi Yi summoned Bian to protect himself, and Bian and the Yin-Yang Flood Dragons fought until the remaining half of the training ground was shattered.
• Li Dao and Shi Yi faced each other across the ruined arena, each recognizing the other as a formidable opponent.
• Three Martial King Manor elders arrived and ordered the fighters to stop.

After Li Dao fought Shi Yi to a standstill, Martial King Manor's Elders tried to recruit him, but he refused and Liu Yun arrived to take him back to Heaven Mending Pavilion. The group left without being stopped, while Shi Yi watched Li Dao depart and anticipated their next encounter.

• The Elders of Martial King Manor arrived and, impressed by Li Dao's battle with Shi Yi, offered him cultivation resources to join their ranks.
• Li Dao refused the offer, saying he could not betray Heaven Mending Pavilion or dishonor his predecessors.
• Liu Yun arrived, confronted the Elders' pressure, and shielded Li Dao while announcing that they would leave.
• Shi Li tried to persuade Liu Yun to stay, but she insisted that the Pavilion Master had summoned them back.
• Liu Yun, Li Dao, and Xia Youyu left Martial King Manor, while Shi Yi watched Li Dao go and anticipated meeting him again.

Shi Li decided to link Li Dao to the Little Devil King and alert the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake, while the Martial King Manor turned its attention to a new Bear Child challenging Shi Yi's records. On the road back, Li Dao praised Shi Yi's Double Pupils, claimed he feared no one at the same cultivation realm, and agreed to fight him again as Xia Youyu urged the group to return quickly to the Heaven Mending Pavilion.

• Shi Yi told Shi Li that he would surpass the geniuses of the Eight Regions once he mastered the Double Pupils, and Shi Li resolved to prevent anything from disrupting his rise.
• An old woman suggested that Li Dao's techniques resembled those of Damn You, Daoist, so Shi Li ordered the clan to connect the two and inform the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake.
• A messenger reported that a Bear Child had appeared in the Void God Realm and vowed to break Shi Yi's records, prompting Shi Li to go confront him while repeating his order about Li Dao.
• Xia Youyu asked Li Dao about his fight with Shi Yi, and Li Dao said Shi Yi's Double Pupils were nice to look at before acknowledging his strength.
• Li Dao declared that he feared no one in the same cultivation realm, and Xia Youyu urged him to thrash Shi Yi in their next fight.
• Liu Yun warned that news of the battle would spread and urged the group to return to the Heaven Mending Pavilion quickly.

Shi Hao joined Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi in a scheme to recover resources by targeting factions that held Treasure Bones, while also challenging Shi Yi’s records. As the Void God Realm and Great Wilderness watched Shi Hao’s rise, he and his companions arrived outside the Martial King Manor’s blessed land.

• Shi Hao was embarrassed when the Record Stele displayed his chosen name, “Loves Beast Milk Best,” and Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi proposed working with him.
• Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi told Shi Hao how the Little Devil King had raided factions for resources, convincing Shi Hao to join their plan to find Treasure Bones.
• Shi Hao agreed to work with them, but first set out with Lord Bird to challenge the records left by the Double Pupils One, while Grandpa Jingbi prepared to seek out Treasure Bones.
• News of Shi Hao’s record-breaking feats spread through the Void God Realm and Great Wilderness, drawing widespread attention and prompting people from the Martial King Manor to enter the realm.
• Shi Hao, Lord Bird, and Grandpa Jingbi arrived outside the Martial King Manor’s blessed land and secretly watched its movements.

Shi Hao, Lord Bird, and Grandpa Jingbi eyed the Martial King Manor’s Cave Heaven as a target for its treasures, while Demon Spirit Lake and the Rain Clan plotted to kill Li Dao. Unaware that danger was closing in, Li Dao gathered the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples and prepared to leave Starleap Tower.

• Lord Bird told Shi Hao that disciples of the Martial King Manor had taken the Treasure Bone, and Shi Hao began plotting to seize the Cave Heaven’s treasures.
• Venerable Golden Spider learned of Li Dao’s strength and ties to the Little Devil King, recognized that someone was trying to use Demon Spirit Lake as a weapon, and ordered Shadow One to act covertly.
• Grand Elder Yu Kuan ended the Rain Clan’s debate by ordering the Madman to ambush and kill Li Dao on the road to the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Li Dao warned Little Flower that his growing reputation could attract attackers and told him to stay close.
• Li Dao gathered the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples at Starleap Tower and prepared to leave the city, while the disciples reacted with admiration, excitement, confusion, and fear.

Shi Hao raided Martial King Manor in the Void God Realm, defeated Shi Li, and looted the treasury, stirring up factions across the realm. Meanwhile, Li Dao traveled toward Heaven Mending Pavilion with his companions, troubled by nonstop sneezing and a twitching eyelid.

• Li Dao and his companions left the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital for Heaven Mending Pavilion as unseen figures watched them depart.
• Shi Hao attacked Martial King Manor’s blessed land and used his Suanni to defeat Shi Li after declaring he had come to take back what was his.
• Shi Hao plundered Martial King Manor’s treasury, then gave bundles of loot to Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi as payment before leaving.
• Scouts reported Shi Hao’s raid, prompting factions to prepare for his attacks and the War Goddess to seek to recruit him.
• Li Dao flew toward Heaven Mending Pavilion on the Blue-Feathered Sparrow and wondered whether someone was plotting against him as he kept sneezing.